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Gareth Benest is a communications and participatory media specialist working with groups and communities around the world. Gareth provides consultancy services for organisations across the international development sector, with particular focus on supporting community-led storytelling. His work aims to increase the visibility of under-represented groups and provide opportunities and platforms for marginalised groups to amplify their own voices.
Gareth has a diverse skillset - including facilitation, video production/post-production, copy-writing/editing and graphic design - and an established track record for programme development, project management, capacity-building and training. He has written three guidebooks, covering various aspects of participatory video practice, based on two decades of work with communities and stakeholders around the world.
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Design and facilitate training workshop on land corruption, gender and safety
Application Closing Date - 06 Aug 2017
Job Start Date - 01 Sep, 2017
Duration - 1 September to 8 October 2017
Location - remotely and attending the workshop in Stockholm, Sweden
BACKGROUND
Developing a position paper on gender, SDGs, land and corruption
Application Closing Date - 31 Jul 2017
Job Start Date - 10 Aug, 2017
Duration - 10 August 2017 to 22 September 2017
Location - Remote
BACKGROUND
Can tech help Uganda's women combat land corruption?
Transparency International recently teamed up with a graduate consulting group from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs to analyse the intersectionality of land, corruption, and gender in Uganda, and the potential for tech to empower women in the country. Here's what the team discovered:
Land, corruption, and information communication technologies (ICTs) are complex and dynamic issues, playing significant roles in Ugandans’ lives. On one hand, they promote or even generate wealth, but on the other, they create or increase vulnerability.
Journey of a Changemaker: young activists report back
The young Changemakers who won seed grants through our Land and Corruption Programme last year are making progress with their projects.
Here are their stories:
Ariel Lashansky
5 videos on how land corruption impacts lives in sub-Saharan Africa
From exposing dodgy land barons in Zimbabwe, to public-private sector collusion forcing locals off their land in Uganda, we’re using the power of video show how land corruption affects lives and what we’re doing to bring about change.
Take a look:
Ghana
This film was made by widowed farmers in Kulbia village in northern Ghana. It documents how land rights violations are destroying their livelihoods.
Seeking a communications consultant for TI's Land and Corruption Programme
Application Closing Date - 31 May 2017
Job Start Date - June 2017
Duration - June 2017 to December 2017 – approx. 90 working days in this time period
Location - Remote
BACKGROUND
Internship: TI's Land and Corruption in Africa Programme
Transparency International (TI) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. In collaboration with more than 100 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, TI raises awareness of the damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government, business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to tackle it.
Shady agri deal and rumours of oil: why Amuru citizens stand to lose their land a second time
Land governance and corruption: tool for mapping risks
Corruption in land governance is the abuse of power for private gain while carrying out the functions of land administration and land management. When land governance systems are weak, corruption thrives.